Category: Cooking Tips

Salad spinners are used to dry green salad leaves when you’ve rinsed them and need an easy way to get them dry.  Most people would then discard the

Heating cooked chicken in a microwave is straight forward – I do it all the time. I mostly cook chicken from raw in the microwave if I just

Carrots are one of my favourite vegetables – growing up we grew them in the garden, so carrots were always freshly pulled and cooked.  I’d go out and

We’ve all been there – you decide at the last minute to use up some frozen meatballs from the freezer and you want to use them in a

If you’re short of hob space, or short of saucepans, but want to put a selection of mixed vegetables on a plate quickly then here’s one cheats’ tinned

If you’ve got cold chicken, that’s been bought as cooked/cold chicken, or that you’ve cooled yourself and kept properly in the fridge, then you might wonder “Can I add

If you’re reading this then you’re probably wondering what the answer is – whether you have to brown meatballs before putting them into a slow cooker, or if

Summer’s here – and that means strawberries.  Strawberry slices as cake toppings and strawberry slices in a fruit cocktail, Summer strawberry trifle, Eton mess, or even a simple bowl of

Got more ciabatta bread than you can eat? You might be wondering how can you freeze ciabatta bread.  You might wonder how it’ll turn out once defrosted. How long

I do enjoy watching TV cookery programmes and one that’s running at the moment is Mary Berry Cooks. Mary Berry, 80, is most recently best known for being

A great food cheats tip is how to reduce washing up – and for slow cooker meals you can simply cheat by using slow cooker liner bags. Slow

If you’ve ever made your own Scotch Eggs you might find that the coating isn’t very thick – it can be hard to get enough of the breadcrumbs